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Summary of changes for DOWNSORT VERSION 5.1
■ Since the ORPhan report is optional (changed with version 5.0), orphan
entries could and now will be removed from internal storage during the
information collection phase of DOWNSORT, but only when no orphan-list
is requested! This is especially useful for the situation where a
single large directory contains the files of several area's, and whereby
the file descriptions are contained in different FILES.BBS files.
Normally this will result in reporting lots of duplicate orphans
(according to the definition of 'orphan' in DOWNSORT!). With this
change memory utilisation is lower and sorting faster.
■ Another change of this kind: area's with a privilege exceeding any
reporting privilege are not scanned anymore. Apart from lower memory
utilisation, this might be useful for CDROM and slow disk(ette) systems.
■ The maximum number of Top-, Sub- and Bottom-Title lines has been
extended to 20.
■ In addition all lists may now include a 'logo'-file with a new -I
parameter on the individual report request specification (see sample
DOWNSORT.CFG). The file will be copied into the list without any
editing or translation. It will be positioned directly behind the
block-title and before the subtitle (if any). For example: you may
include your BBS-logo or a picture of your system configuration, or
anything else you want to tell the file-requestors of FILES, ALLFILES
and/or NEWFILES. The IPF-list may also include IPF tags, with artwork,
etc. It may even include other files itself! For FILES.BBS the
contents of this Include-file will immediately follow the 'standard'
header.
■ All block-fonts have now a new special character <`> (reversed quote),
which will be 'printed' as blank (space) with half the width of a normal
character. This is useful for fine-alignment (e.g. manually centering)
the BLOCK-title.
■ The chapter on 'titles and headers' has been rewritten to clarify the
use of all title-options, please read it!.
■ In the SUMMARY of ALL- and IPF-lists the areas themselves are not sorted
anymore, but presented in sequence of AREAS.CTL specification. This is
based on the assumption that the file area's are in some kind of
'natural' order in AREAS.CTL (or maybe it is time to do that now!).
■ Descriptions in FILES.BBS are now (again) aligned on column 14 of the
FILES.bbs file records.
■ IPF-list again a little more user-friendly (linking of area's).
■ A number of improvements have been applied to the executiontime messages
(when running in VERBOSE mode).